PLANNING AND FACILITATING TRAINING PROGRAMS WITH MULTICULTURAL GROUPS

Abstract

Demographic changes in the work environments present numerous challenges for training professionals interested in fostering awareness and sensitivity to cultural diversity when planning and facilitating adult education programs. As a professional trainer who works with multicultural groups in urban settings, I am exploring ways in which race, ethnicity, gender and age influence planning and facilitating training programs. In this paper I am addressing the social construction of race, ethnicity, gender and age and how training professionals might deal with the influence of these concepts in curriculum planning and facilitating training programs.